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Old June 8th 10, 03:14 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors
petev petev is offline
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Default Noisy neigborhood and HQ-129-x

On May 22, 7:03*pm, Bill Baka wrote:
On 05/22/2010 04:44 PM, petev wrote:

I can vouch for the MFJ noise cancelling antenna. However, you have to
keep re-adjusting
* it as you change frequency. Not by much, but it requires re-tweaking.
It makes the noise
practically dissapear, without the artifacts of a noise limiter.
Perhaps you can find one on ebay,
Or appeal to a ham club or two for a loaner or a donation.


One of my friends refers to MFJ as Mighty Fine Junk. How good is it?
Bill Baka


Some of MFJ's products are indeed questionable (like their RTTY
reader)
but the noise cancelling antenna actually works as advertised. It is
very
tweak intensive, however, and precludes casual band surfing, as the
phase
relationship between the noise and signal antennas changes as you
change frequency.